April 2011 - Italy's Next Generation of Stem Cell Biologists An ambitious event by Italian biologists and EuroStemCell promote stem
cell science On 18th March 2011 an extraordinary large - scale schools event took place in four Italian cities simultaneously.
Not exact matches
«Things that would have seemed
science fiction to me just maybe five to 10 years ago — like getting a billion
cells for each heart — now are doable,» LaFlamme, the investigator
on the heart program, said.
@Rachel, Many Atheists are simply trying to counter-act the influence of Christians in their lives, such as
science in
science class, gay marriage, stem
cell research, women's choices
on reproduction.
What I said was to remove all encroachment
on other's lives by religion, e.g.
science class creationism, bans
on stem
cell research, etc..
As a medical professional, one would think you'd understand that biological evolution, much like general relativity, quantum mechanics, the germ theory of disease,
cell theory, plate tectonic theory, etc is a scientific theory and should be taught in
science class based
on the preponderance of evidence that backs it.
... yeah suzy and others... I just happen to realize that when monkey devolving didn't quite work out
on paper it all changed to single
cells and from the slime off of the worlds garbage can and so
on... I just happen to know more than you think... In another ten or twenty years the
science books will all have a new teaching... the Bible has been around and hasn't changed one word in over two thousnad years..
Unlike most other philosophers of
science, he does not immediately cast scorn
on the likes of William Dembski and Michael Behe, who have focused
on the apparent design of
cells and organisms.
In fact, when the 2007 paper came out, the commentaries in most scientific publications were quick to point out that, despite the success with adult
cells, there was still a need to continue embryo - destructive research and that it would be critical to the advancement of
science that research
on embryonic stem
cells continue.
Elsewhere, Philip Ball, an English
science writer, reports
on research into the mechanical properties of cancer
cells.
Could you open a
science book and give me the answer
on how mitochondria, the power plant of the
cell, came to exist?
The beliefs of others impact even non-believers lives through the laws that they promote, e.g. bans
on gay marriage, creationism in
science class, reduced stem -
cell research, abstinence only se.x ed., etc., etc..
Obama's elevation of bodily suffering above all other considerations, as he articulates it in his remarks to the press following his new executive order
on stem
cell research, is clearly an expression of this Cartesian legacy, of a modern
science pregnant with moral attachments.
He was referring to Intelligent Nutrients, his line of health and beauty products that meets strict NOP organic standards and focuses
on sourcing ingredients in a way that supports the earth, while pushing the envelope with stem -
cell science to produce maximum - efficacy products.
The ESRC Genomics Forum has a commitment to promote social research
on the contemporary life
sciences around issues including designer babies, synthetic blood, DNA profiling, identity politics, personalised medicine, stem
cell research and synthetic biology.
Culturing stem
cells by day, and audiences in dingy stand - up clubs by night, it wasn't until Helen Pilcher left the lab that she started basing her comedy
on science.
The German - born Frank, who was inducted as a AAAS fellow in 1997, is a professor of biochemistry, molecular biophysics and biological
sciences at Columbia in New York City and the Scottish - born Henderson, who has been a AAAS member since 1996, has served as director of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology research facility where hundreds of scientists work
on neurobiology,
cell biology and biotechnology.
I spent the next decade completing rigorous basic
science research training: completing a high school summer internship, attending the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as a Meyerhoff Scholar, and completing my Ph.D. in the Stanford immunology program, where my work focused
on the mechanisms regulating hematopoietic and leukemic stem
cells.
Cells inside the brains contract, while cells on the outside grow and push outward, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, discovered from working with the lab - grown brains, or organ
Cells inside the brains contract, while
cells on the outside grow and push outward, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, discovered from working with the lab - grown brains, or organ
cells on the outside grow and push outward, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of
Science in Rehovot, Israel, discovered from working with the lab - grown brains, or organoids.
The year's most prominent
science issue, federal support of embryonic stem
cell research, is so controversial that the sons of Ronald Reagan gave dueling speeches at the opposing party conventions; Michael Reagan backs President George W. Bush's policies, including the ban
on funding for research
on new stem
cell lines, while Ron supports Senator John Kerry's promise to lift restrictions.
Skop published her work in the 2 July 2004 issue of
Science, and her image of Chinese hamster
cells caught in the act of division landed
on the cover.
«The discovery of the microbiome and its significance represents a huge paradigm shift in our understanding of human health — there are more microbes living
on us and in us than our own
cells,» said Ingber, who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, and Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied
Science.
The researchers are building
on their current findings, which they say establishes a system for reconstituting
cell fusion in mammalian
cells, a feat not yet achieved by biomedical
science.
Combing the genetic data from a transmission study in ferrets, a team led by Thomas Friedrich, a professor of pathobiological
sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, found that during transmission, when one animal is infected by another through sneezing or coughing, the process of natural selection acts strongly
on hemagglutinin, the structure the virus uses to attach to and infect host
cells.
Adenovirus 36 has been found to encourage the transformation of adult stem
cells in fatty tissue into fat
cells as discussed
on the daily Scientific American podcast 60 - Second
Science on August 20th.
However, when Oehmichen inflicted stab wounds
on cadavers, the number of these
cells was the same everywhere (Forensic
Science International, DOI: 10.1016 / j.forsciint.2009.05.020).
«The placement of the pegs that this group of
cells wraps itself around and then exerts force
on each other is what dictates their alignment and the direction of the ECM they are going to synthesize,» said senior author Jeffrey Morgan, professor of medical
science and engineering and co-director of Brown's Center for Biomedical Engineering.
Last year Cuervo collaborated with Sheng Zhang, a professor at The University of Texas Health
Science Center at Houston
on experiments showing that huntingtin — the Huntington's disease protein — helps the
cell's autophagy system identify what it should eliminate.
«To treat most forms of hearing loss, we need to find a delivery mechanism that works for all types of hair
cells,» said neurobiologist David Corey, co-senior investigator
on the study and the Bertarelli Professor of Translational Medical
Science at HMS.
Not to
science, though: the taste has recently been traced to a single receptor
on the surface of
cells on your tongue.
After gaining a degree in molecular
sciences from Wageningen University in 1991, he left the Netherlands to do his PhD
on the structure of membrane protein at the
Cell and Molecular Biosciences division of the University of Newcastle's medical school.
In work presented in March to a committee of the National Academies, Stefan Savage, a computer
science professor at the University of California, San Diego, and Tadayoshi Kohno of the University of Washington, placed malicious software
on an unspecified car's computer system using its own Bluetooth and
cell phone connections.
This collaboration reflects work of The Center for Engineering Mechanobiology, a National
Science Foundation - funded
Science and Technology Center that supports interdisciplinary research
on the way
cells exert and are influenced by the physical forces in their environment.
New research at the Weizmann Institute of
Science has shed light
on the subject, especially
on the movement of immune
cells that race to the sites of infection and inflammation.
In a study published in the journal
Science, an international collaboration of investigators from Dana - Farber, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, and the University of Strasbourg uncovered a mechanism that allows key immune system
cells to keep a steady rein
on their more belligerent brother
cells, thereby protecting normal, healthy tissue from assault.
Who We Are As Scientists 6 October 2006 Spurred by the stem -
cell scandal, a group of Korean early - career scientists organized an international conference
on ethical issues in
science.
«I don't really think growing
cells in space for clinical use
on Earth is
science fiction,» he says.
Dr. Weiss» study of pembrolizumab was presented during a session
on small
cell lung cancer when the theme of the conference was
Science Drives Lung Cancer Advances.
In
science news around the world, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cracks down
on stem
cell labs, Brazil opens one of its largest national reserves to gold and iron mining, and the International Atomic Energy Agency launches a global bank for low - enriched uranium.
The two proteins have different biochemical properties and recognize different DNA sequences, so these properties create more options for gene - editing,» said Dr. Olson, who holds the Pogue Distinguished Chair in Research
on Cardiac Birth Defects, the Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in
Science, and the Annie and Willie Nelson Professorship in Stem
Cell Research.
The Sartorius &
Science Prize for Regenerative Medicine &
Cell Therapy is an annual prize geared toward researchers focused on basic or translational research that advances regenerative medicine and cell ther
Cell Therapy is an annual prize geared toward researchers focused
on basic or translational research that advances regenerative medicine and
cell ther
cell therapy.
Venter says that the
cell, which is described in a paper released
on March 24in
Science, constitutes a brand new, artificial species.
The Eppendorf &
Science Prize in Neurobiology recognizes outstanding international neurobiological research based
on current methods and advances in the field of molecular and
cell biology by a young early - career scientist, as described in a 1,000 - word essay based
on research performed within the last three years.
Spurred by the stem -
cell scandal, a group of Korean early - career scientists organized an international conference
on ethical issues in
science
Researchers report in tomorrow's issue of
Science that they've created thin films that are hybrids of rat heart muscle
cells grown
on a prepatterned plastic support.
Robert Hockaday, who founded Energy Related Devices, a company working
on fuel
cells in Los Alamos, New Mexico, told
Science magazine that the material «could set a new gold standard.»
The reviewers dismissed his research as «not impactful,» a common refrain in
science funding, which means that Matthew's research might certainly shed light
on how
cells work — but when it came down to it, how much do we really need to know about how
cells work?
The problem follows close
on the heels of Hwang's admission that, despite his previous denials, two members of his lab had donated oocytes for his group's stem
cell experiments and other donors had been paid for their donations (
Science, 2 December, p. 1402).
«With the rise of new and unproven stem
cell treatments, the NFL faces a daunting task of trying to better understand and regulate the use of these therapies in order to protect the health of its players,» said Kirstin Matthews, the Baker Institute fellow in
science and technology policy and an expert
on ethical and policy issues related to biomedical research and development.
Simultaneously, the research team in CRAG led by Ana Caño Delgado discovered more details
on the root growth and its post-damaged
cell repair capacity, which have been published in the Journal of Cell Scie
cell repair capacity, which have been published in the Journal of
Cell Scie
Cell Science.
The projects vary slightly in their aims — the US BRAIN initiative will start by cataloguing the types of
cells in the brain and how they wire together, while the China Brain
Science Project is focused
on developmental, psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders.